Research Catalog

Title

Taking it all in / Pauline Kael.

Author

Kael, Pauline.

Publication

New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, ©1984.

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Details

Description

xiii, 527 pages; 25 cm

Summary

From the Blurb: Taking It All In is the seventh collection of Pauline Kael's movie reviews, and it maintains the high standard she set for herself almost twenty years ago in I Lost it at the Movies and has held to in each of its memorable successors: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Going Steady, Deeper into Movies, Reeling, and When the Lights Go Down. From its title, which sums up in a phrase the Kael way of seeing and writing about movies, to its concluding pieces, a sympathetic and evocative consideration of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander, this newest volume is potent evidence of Pauline Kael's enthusiasm, discrimination, wit, and famous style. Taking It All In, following the weekly pattern of The New Yorker where all the pieces first appeared, runs from June 1980 to June 1983, and brings to life some 150 films-The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Mommie Dearest, Reds, Tootsie, The Stunt Man, Gandhi, Sophie's Choice, Diva, Diner, Return of the Jedi. Very early in the book there is a piece entitled "Why Are Movies So Bad?"; it provides a devastating answer. Yet, as Kael is quick to point out, good movies are still being made. She herself is adept at discovering them, and when she does, she writes about them with a sense of celebration. Taking It All In takes its proper place alongside Pauline Kael's other collections. Together the seven volumes represent an achievement without parallel in movie criticism-a record of two decades of regular movie-going, kept by a critic of exceptional sensibility and knowledge. The voice, though often imitated, remains inimitable; the pleasure for the reader, encountering it again, remains unconfined.

Subjects

• Comptes rendus
• Reviews
• reviews (documents)
• Review
• Motion pictures > Reviews

Genre/Form

• Review
• reviews (documents)
• Reviews.
• Comptes rendus.

Note

• "A William Abrahams book."
• Includes index.

Contents

Author's note -- Devolution: -- Shining -- Why are movies so bad? Or, the numbers -- Muckrakers And Saints: -- Brubaker -- Blues Brothers -- Boys And Girls: -- Blue Lagoon -- Urban Cowboy -- Master Spy, Master Seducer: -- Dressed to Kill -- Craft: -- Honeysuckle Rose -- Who And Who: -- Willie & Phil -- Airplane! -- Great Santini -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the special edition -- Australians: -- Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith -- Getting of Wisdom -- As Swift As Buzzard Flies: -- Stunt Man -- Those Lips, Those Eyes -- Man Who Made Howard Hughes Sing And The Iron-Butterfly Mom: -- Melvin and Howard -- Ordinary People -- Frog Who Turned Into A Prince The Prince Who Turned Into A Frog: -- Elephant Man -- Stardust Memories -- Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy: -- Private Benjamin -- Divine Madness -- Used Cars -- Civilization Of The Rump: -- Every Man for Himself -- Religious Pulp, Or The Incredible Hulk: -- Raging Bull -- Poses: -- Heaven's Gate -- Idolmaker -- Resurrection -- Funnies: -- Popeye -- Flash Gordon -- Sensory Deprivation: -- Altered states -- Competition -- Victims: -- Tess -- Kagemusha -- Abel Gance: -- Napoleon -- Itch To Act: -- Fort Apache, the Bronx -- Tramont's mirror -- Women A La Mode: -- All Night Long -- Caddie -- Incredible Shrinking Woman -- Nine to Five -- Love, War, And Custodial Services: -- La Cage aux Folles II -- Dogs of War -- Eyewitness -- Chance/Fate: -- Atlantic City -- Postman Always Rings Twice -- Boorman's Plunge: -- Excalibur -- Safes And Snouts: -- Thief -- Howling -- Waddlers And Bikers: -- Caveman -- Knightriders -- Dawn of the Dead -- Sad Songs: -- This is Elvis -- Heartworn Highways -- Whipped: -- Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Cattle Annie and Little Britches -- Hey, Torquemada: -- History of the World-Part 1 -- Outland -- Good News: -- Dragonslayer -- Superman II -- Stripes -- Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Gadgeteer: -- Blow Out -- Arthur -- Zorro, the Gay Blade -- Dunaway Assoluta: -- Mommie Dearest -- French Lieutenant's Woman -- So Fine -- Three Pairs: -- True Confessions -- Chariots of Fire -- Rich and Famous -- Childhood Of The Dead: -- Pixote -- Looker -- Continental Divide -- Body Heat -- Swamp: -- Southern Comfort -- Ticket to Heaven -- Ragtime -- Devil In The Flesh: -- Devil's Playground -- On Golden Pond -- Dreamers: -- Pennies from Heaven -- Reds -- Flag Nag: -- Four Friends -- My Dinner with Andre -- Absence of Malice -- Shoot the moon -- Melted Ice Cream: -- One from the Heart -- Border -- Man Who Understands Women: -- Personal Best -- Carry Your Own Matches: -- Quest for Fire -- Missing -- Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man -- Francesco Rosi: -- Three Brothers -- Comedians: -- Diner -- Richard Pryor live on the Sunset Strip -- Deathtrap -- Rhapsody In Blue: -- Diva -- Audience Pleaser: -- Victor/Victoria -- Cat People -- Devil Without Fire: -- Mephisto -- Fighters: -- Smash Palace -- Annie -- Rocky III -- Pure And The Impure: -- E T the Extra-Terrestrial -- Poltergeist -- Escape Artist -- Only Logical Thing To Do: -- Star Trek II: the wrath of Khan -- Baby, The Rain Must Fall: -- Blade runner -- Comedy Without Impulse: -- Midsummer night's sex comedy -- Author! Author! -- Texans: -- Barbarosa -- Best little whorehouse in Texas -- Neutered: -- World according to garp -- Officer and a gentleman -- Action: -- Road warrior -- Buzzers: -- Tempest -- Night shift -- Actors As Heroes: -- My favorite year -- Tex -- Le Beau marriage -- Up The River: -- Fitzcarraldo -- Burden of dreams -- Rice Krispies: -- Fast times at Ridgemont High -- Sweet hours -- Jinxed! -- Magician: -- Come back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean -- Designs For Living: -- Leap into the void -- By design -- Eating Raoul -- Raunch And Reticence: -- Heartaches -- Still of the night -- Tootsie, Gandhi, And Sophie: -- Tootsie -- Gandhi -- Sophie's choice -- Cool And The Dead: -- 48 hrs -- Verdict -- Hopeless: -- Coup de Torchon -- Best friends -- Memory: -- Night of the shooting stars -- Torrid Zone: -- Year of living dangerously -- Jokers: -- King of comedy -- Lovesick -- Night Life: -- Local hero -- Tales of ordinary madness -- La nuit de Varnnes -- -- Saved! : -- Say amen, somebody -- Bad boys -- Gents And Hicks: -- Flight of the eagle -- Tender mercies -- Fun Machines: -- Return of the Jedi -- Blue thunder -- Ingmar Bergman's Family Reunion: -- Fanny and Alexander -- WarGames -- Index.

ISBN

• 0030693624
• 9780030693625
• 0030693616
• 9780030693618

LCCN

83008445

OCLC

• ocm09465223
• 9465223
• SCSB-603348

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library